Linderhof

Gardening, Cooking and Decorating on the Prairie of Kansas

Welcome to Linderhof, our 1920's home on the prairie, where there's usually something in the oven, flowers in the garden for tabletops and herbs in the garden for cooking. Where, when company comes, the teapot is always on and there are cookies and cakes to share in the larder.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

A Dual Holiday -- Thanksgiving and Anniversary

Thanksgiving at Linderhof was a quiet affair

Just Husband Jim and I

For he is recovering from surgery

So we chose a

"Home Alone"

Thanksgiving

But this year

It was also our 46th Anniversary

Thanksgiving food won out over Anniversary food

And we had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner

In the dining room

And as our marriage is two people who become one

Our Thanksgiving table reflects that melding of two families

My mother's water glasses

His grandmother's cutlery

The bread tray celebrating a 25th anniversary in 1914

Napkin rings which he bought for a gift

In fact, it was two of the very first ones I got when I started collecting

Belonging to Abe and Dora

A couple's napkin rings

for an Anniversary Thanksgiving Dinner

The plates are Spode Festival

While the bread and butter plates are Queesware

And Thanksgiving is turkey

Turkey to eat

Turkey for the cranberry sauce

Turkey salt and peppers

A big tom holding a bouquet of fall flowers

The salt and peppers and centerpiece I got the second year we were married

At a dimestore in downtown Kansas City

for less than $5!

We've had them ever since!

(And I found a second flower holder but then I like things in pairs!)

Our places at the head and foot of the table

The feast spread between us

The glass turkey

(one of a pair, naturally)

holding cranberry sauce

And the wee turkey holding pepper

A casserole of dressing

(Which is what we call it whether it is inside or outside the turkey)

Our plate of Thanksgiving food

Most of it from my childhood Thanksgivings

And after dinner

But not after pie

We were too full!

The dishes are done and stacked on the breakfast room table

That's a tradition too

For usually someone helps with the dishes

And not knowing where they go they get piled up somewhere

For the hostess to put away later.

It wouldn't seem like Thanksgiving without clean dishes on a table

ready to be put away!

Dinner tonight will also not be an anniversary dinner

It will be Thanksgiving leftovers

My favorite

A turkey sandwich and cold glass of milk!

We'll celebrate this weekend or next week!

In hindsight, I'm not sure I would have gotten married on the day before Thanksgiving

Because every few years our anniversary and Thanksgiving fall on the same day.

I am a romantic

And turkey and all the trimmings doesn't seem "romantic" enough for me!

7 comments:

Oh Congratulations on your Anniversary Martha! What a sweet Thanksgiving Dinner for two! I enjoyed hearing about all of your pieces. I really like the looks of that glass turkey with the cranberry sauce in it, very striking looking! And, I like pairs too! :)

Hope your hubby is recovering well. We also had a quiet Thanksgiving with just the two of us. The ice storm made us change our plans for today. Ham for us, but I pulled out all the good dishes too and I had the cranberry sauce I had made to take along today.

Happy Anniversary and Happy TGV! We got married 3 days before Christmas, and it was all so loverly. However, it creates issues when we want to travel or we have company or gift buying. I have decided it is a good idea to have a few months in between significant days! (More presents...)

I loved reading this, Martha, and want to wish you a Happy 46th Anniversary. My late beloved and I would've been married 46 years this coming June. Enjoy your special time together, and may your hubby continue to improve. The curved glass china cabinet is a beauty and so deserved as an anniversary gift! What a deal it was and it will be loved in your home. Happy advent blessings to you.